On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 7:15 AM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak < and...@pitonyak.org> wrote:
> People come in and say "hey, how can I help". > > I would like to provide a solid answer, but, the best I can probably do is > to point them to this mailing list. Would be nice if we had a WIKI page or > document to spell it out. > > So, I looked here: > > http://wiki.openoffice.org/**wiki/Documentation<http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation> > > The best I could find was a link to here > > http://www.openoffice.org/**documentation/<http://www.openoffice.org/documentation/> > > None of the pages give concrete direction or suggestions. > > The ODF team uses Write documents with set styles and templates. For > review, you enable change tracking, make your changes, rename the document, > then put it back for the original author to accept or reject your changes. > > In GIMP, you edit an XML file and submit your changes directly to a lead > who integrates your changes. I submitted so many changes that I had direct > write access, but that occurred over time based on previous work. > > So, how does it work for AOO? It would be nice if it were spelled out on a > specific page. The best that I can figure is that anyone can simply edit > the WIKI and make direction changes with no review process. > > Yep, just jump in and change what ever you want. > I went to the Documentation pages and they do give some help venues on how to contribute. Including Wiki edit guidelines. The dashboard does suggest moving everything to the wiki: http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Dashboard I think we could get some knowledge like creating wikibooks and how to contribute to wikibooks so the pages are not scattered or the links miswriten. I am sure is there, but is not easy to get there, we could add url to the wikibooks from the helpguide. Should tutorials have guidelines? At least tagged under a specified category. > > Would rather see clear direction that tells them this is what is expected, > and, if not, indicate what is expected. > > Also, are we making any provisions for having multiple versions of > documentation on the wiki? Consider when things are set for version 4 and > we start working towards something on the near horizon. Do we simply modify > the existing for what will be coming out in a few months? > > -- > Andrew Pitonyak > My Macro Document: > http://www.pitonyak.org/**AndrewMacro.odt<http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt> > Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php > > -- Alexandro Colorado Apache OpenOffice Contributor http://es.openoffice.org
